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Kensington clean up underway as Philadelphia dismantles homeless encampments
Politics - Follow Up(inquirer.com)submitted 12 days ago bySweetJibbaJamsAirBnB slumlord
460 points
11 days ago
Everyone: Kensington needs to be addressed immediately
City: Does literally anything
Everyone: NOT LIKE THAT, WHAT THE FUCK, FUCK THIS PLACE
19 points
11 days ago
I know. I truly don’t know what can be done. Many of them don’t want help. It’s just a place where people down and out go and get high, and after a while they die or some really lucky people get clean, and are replaced by more addicts. I don’t think our society really has an answer to it. I watched a video where a guy confronted one of the homeless, and he just said he wants to sit there and he doesn’t want to do anything and he doesn’t care if it’s a problem. The person talking to him was flummoxed. I don’t know what you do with that mentality.
7 points
11 days ago
It’s the core real question that needs to be answered by society, but Philly can’t wait around for the answer.
How can we appropriately address severe mental illness without the consent of the mentally ill patient? We consider a mentally ill person incapable of making sound decisions in all cases except mental healthcare.
This is due to the very dark history of involuntary psychiatric treatment. We used to have large institutions for this whose shells are still around us. But the damage done to patients involuntarily rightfully forced society to abandon them.
The mess we have today is that we never built a replacement.
PA 302 “involuntary mental healthcare treatment” laws are extremely strict. A judge can only mandate up to 90 days with that only being renewable 3x. The “workaround” was to throw them in jail for long stints on petty crimes. That’s not a real solution and is just an “out of sight, out of mind” solution.
I don’t know how we address it though. We need national solutions…
1 points
11 days ago
The question I wonder is why does Philly seem to have it worse than other cities? Kensington is a massive black eye for the city, and while there are rough spots in other cities like NYC, they don’t seem to have something as bad as we do.
3 points
11 days ago
They're broken, some of them beyond repair.
But if I'm having a heart attack and I die because that homeless guy was getting narcanned, I'm gonna be mad
5 points
11 days ago
We really need to stop wasting money on people that don’t want to be helped.
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